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- Title
The Disincarnate Text: Ritual Poetics in Herbert, Paul, Williams, and Levinas.
- Authors
Smith, Matthew
- Abstract
This Introduction to a special issue on “The Sacramental Text Reconsidered” provides a brief genealogy of the practice of describing texts, performances, and poetics as sacramental, eucharistic, and incarnational. It also offers a critique and clarification of such reading practices by differentiating between the real divine presence theologically understood to dwell in a proper sacrament and the “disincarnation” enacted by sacramentally laden literary texts and performances. Drawing on the writings of Emmanuel Levinas, Rowan Williams, and St. Paul, I demonstrate the disincarnate as a poetic of ritual and oblation in an extended reading of Herbert’s poetry.
- Subjects
SACRAMENTS; LORD'S Supper; HERBERT, George, 1593-1633; SACRIFICE
- Publication
Christianity & Literature, 2017, Vol 66, Issue 3, p363
- ISSN
0148-3331
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0148333117703987